Introduction to Setonix

Pawsey Setonix is the most powerful research computer in the Southern Hemisphere, and the world’s fourth greenest supercomputer. It is a hybrid system of central processing units (CPU) and graphics processing units (GPU), and now a world-leading quantum computing facility.

Setonix technical summary

Component	Details
CPU	1592 Dual 2.45GHz AMD EPYC 7763 “Milan” 64-Core CPU Nodes with 256 GB RAM
	8 Dual 2.45GHz AMD EPYC 7763 “Milan” 64-Core CPU Nodes with 1 TB RAM
GPU	154 Single AMD EPYC 7A53 “Trento” 64-Core GPU Nodes with eight AMD Instinct MI250X GPUs and 256 GB RAM
	38 Single AMD EPYC 7A53 “Trento” 64-Core GPU Nodes with eight AMD Instinct MI250X GPUs and 512 GB RAM
Peak performance	Combined (CPU + GPU) 42 PetaFLOPS (42 quadrillion floating-point operations per second)
Quantum computing	World’s first room-temperature diamond-based quantum computer located on-site
Visualisation	31 visualization nodes
Networking	Connected by HPE’s Slingshot interconnect (200Gb/sec)
Filesystems	14.4 PB Lustre high-performance parallel filesystem for data processing (3 SSD, 11 HDD)

Tip

More details on the Setonix hardware, including helpful visualisations of the nodes and chips, can be found on Pawsey’s Hardware Architecture page.